Adventures in Muesli

As part of my healthifying thing at the moment, I am trying to make sure I eat a proper breakfast. I am a breakfast person, but I am also a struggling-to-get-up person at the moment, and it's too easy for me to let it slide until I get to work then grab a toasted sandwich with my coffee - white bread, lots of salt, lots of cheese, not much nutritional value, and not even very filling. And frankly, not even that good. Sorry Bean Bar, but it has to be said - you could do better.

Noodles has been slack with breakfast too - unlike me, she is not a breakfast person, but she doesn't have recess at her school until 11:15 (don't get me started), and it's too long a time to be going without food, so I make her have something at home, even if it's just a piece of toast and Vegemite. So we decided to make some muesli, and since we both like different things, we though we'd each make our own tailored version. I used to make muesli all the time, working from a recipe Harriet Archer devised. But as in all things, I got lazy and just stopped doing it. I have to admit, I'm a starter, not a finisher.

Something different, not beauty related...unless you count beauty on the inside!

I took a sick day today because I only had about an hour or two of sleep last night. I always have trouble sleeping on Sunday nights but last night was even worse than usual. I didn't nod off until well after 2am, and then I woke up just after 3 and stayed awake for AGES, going back to sleep less than an hour before my alarm went off. I was very groggy and headachy and dizzy when I awoke, and consequently rang in sick and went back to bed for a few hours after seeing Noodle Arms off to school. I still feel a bit yuk, like I'm hungover (though I have not had a drop since Friday night champaggen).